The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-23

nearly one pound. 1t is the Concord grape
| His vineyard is very young and small but
he viii gather large crop this year.
There is black and white cat at the
Glenwood depot of which strange things are
told. One of its stl'angest acts is that of
turning every gopher" it meets over on its
back, and then frolicking round the incapaci-
! tatcd tortoise with great show of delight
Tho Lecsburg fire company has under
gone reorganization, with Z. III. Moore.
one OF her most active business men at its
head, The company is now composed largo
ly of active business mon of the town, who
propose u make the company one of the
| most efficient in the State
Some flue specimens Of the White Niagara
grapes from the farm of HAYNES, Young &,
! Bailey may be seen in the window of their
! business house in Orlando. These arc the
first grapes Of this variety over grown in
this State and 20 far toward showing what
Florida can do In the way of fruit culture.
A few, struggling st. Andrews Bay Wis
| itors still come into Chipley, but they wont
take advice, and all persist in going TO see
their purchases, which are now located
| some eight or nine miles from the bay in
! land, not worth 10c. an acre. The last
| anxious inquirer came all the way from
| Maine.
Mrs. Dr.. Enos arrived in Melbourne on
the steamer Unique Saturday on her way
| to join her husband in the Narrows, She
| had travelled all the way from Nebraska,
making good connections until arriving in
| Melbourne. On Monday she engaged Mr.
| Brainard's yacht for the remainder OF the
| voyage.
About 0 o'clock Thursday evening fire
was discovered in Mr.. Chafer's handsome
new cottage at Kissimmee The cottage
was about as solid and substantial one as
there was in town; had just been finished
| ready for the plastererS, who were TO begin
work OIL it. The loss is about 81 900, with
no insurance.
Capt. C., Mailing, who lives across the
lake from Kissimmee, is Dragging on a GU
| cumber grown on his place, without tho aid
OF fertilizers, which measured 1917 inches in
! length. 1t was from seed brought by him
from England, is a verp rapid grower, and
is consequently very crisp, tender and de-
! licious eating.
| The United States Department of Agri-
! culture at Washington has instructed j. H.
Moore to procure and forward to the depart
ment the post office address of all persons
engaged IN grape-growing and wine-making
III Putnam county, Fla. Those knowing of
such persons will please forward their adj
dress TO j. Fl. Moore, Keuka, Fla.
| Miss Edith Parker, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Parker, of Orange City, has
accepted position as teacher in music in
a college out in Washington Territory. She
| has been for the past twelve months receiv-
| ing musical instruction in Boston, from
which place she leaves shortly to assume the
duties of her Office at Walla Walla, w. T.
The wedding cards are out for the mar
| riage of Morton F. Plant, who has a place
at Fort Gates, on the st. Johns, to Miss Nell
| lie Capron, daughter of Francis B. Capron,
of Baltimore. The wedding is to take place
on Thursday morning, June %, at the Ca
| r-oI Mr. set oxfI d
and is connected with the Southern Express
| Company.
The Mallory line ships continue to go out
from Fernandina with large cargoes and
| lengthy passenger lists. The City of San
| Antonio sailed last Thursday evening with
about 2S, 900 feet of lumber, several hundred
cases of cedar logs, log cedar and barrels
naval stores This thriving business is due to
| quick time, good deliveries and every atten-
ton the agents can give shippers via the old
! reliable.
Florida Sentinel (colored): The Sunday
| school convention of the African Methodist
| Episcopal church, Gainesville district, will
be held in this city July 6. Some very APP
| propriate subjects will be discussed by ap-
| pointed delegates. Rev. w. p. Ross, of
Jacksonville, will deliver the annual adj
dress Revs. M. NJ. Moore and s. III. Cole
| man are making extensive preparations for
the success of the convention.
| Kissimmee has one of the best marshals in
| South Florida, and he shows no fear or
| favor He does not wait for man to do
| damage when intoxicated, but as soon as he
sees they are getting out of the way he
| takes charge of them. Some time since an
attorney came there to prosecute him for
! arresting and failing man, and had not
been there but a few hours before he (the
| attorney was in Jail for the same offence,
| drunkenness
'Billy Buster" one of the Indians from
the Everglades, was in Kissimmee Satur-
| day doing some trading, and he cut quite a
| figure with very large red cap on his
| head, red shirt rather short a belt around
| his waist with knife or two stuck into it,
a number of red handkerchiefs pinned in
various places on his shirt, and an umbrella
| under his arm, which completed his COS
| tune. He forgot to bring his pants Of he
| had any, and was barefooted.
| Virgins, the condemned negro, will be
| executed in the Jail at Palatka at the time
/ appointed The Sheriff will probably get
! his gallows from Jacksonville or Savannah.
Only few will be permitted to witness the
| hanging, though, unless a high fence is
| erected around the Jail lot, people who
| choose will have a fine view from the out
| side, as the present fence is not above the
| ordinary height. Virgins, like all others of
his race, is perfectly confident that he will
| go straight to Heaven.
County Surveyor Fries, chief of the
Tavares, Apopka and Gulf surveying corps,
was in Kissimmee Friday with instructions
| to have the line ready for forty graders to
commence work Tuesday, which force
will be added to as fast as laborers can be
| obtained. The route talked of for the road
! TO come into town is ON Patrick street. Mr..
Fries says that there are us men at work
| on the Lake Butler end of the road that
arrangements for obtaining money iron,
ETC., have been perfected, and that the road
will be running to KiSsimmee inside of four
| months.
As time draws near for the Palatlka citi-
zens' meeting, on Thursday evening, to dis
cusS whether or not the bridge shall connect
the Florida Southern, or Jacksonville,
| Tampa and Key West railway with the St.
Johns and Halifax, the question becomes
more generally talked about If the matter
is left with the people of PalatlSa the project
will certainly be completed to the Florida
| Southern railway dock. One objection
raised by a prominent citizen to have the
bridge cross at Palatlla is that it will carry
business from the main streets TO this
| terminus.
The State Board of Education is about to
| begin its usual summer work in the holding
! Of tpacbprsf institutions Tho fret ot,a O,,o,,s